Pin-ticketing machine.



No. 859.321. PATBNTED JI'VILY 9. 19o?. F. G. MYERS.

PIN TICKETING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 1. 1905.

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PATENTED JULY 9, 1907.

P. G. MYERS. PIN TIGKETING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1l 1906.

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BY AroHA/E 11G. MYERS.

PIN TIGKTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1l 1905.

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A TTM/VE v W/TNESSES l l www PATENTBD JULY 9, 1907.

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F. G. MYERS.

PIN TIGKBTING MAGHINE.

APPLICATION I'ILFDY JUNE 1, 1905.

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F. G. MYERS.

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PATENTBD JULY 9, 1907.

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FREDERICK GEORGE MYERS, OFVPINELAWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TOlA. KIMBALL COMPANY, AOF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION Ol" NEW YORK.

PIN -TICKETIN G MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1907.

Application iledilune 1,1905. Serial No. 263,342.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that 1, FREDERICK GEoRnE MYERS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pinelawn, county of Suffolk, State of New York, have inventedcertainnew and useful Improvements in Pin- Ticketing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in machinery for forming, feeding and printing pin tickets and attaching them to fabrics or to any of the materials to which it is customary or desirable to apply such tickets, the attachment of the tickets being accomplished by means of staples which are themselves formed, fed, driven and clenched by the machine.

The machine forming the subject of this invention performs all the operations named through the action of a single driving shaft and -its associated parts. By actuating the driving shaft either by foot or hand power Y or by a suitable mechanical or electrical motor, the. ma-

terials to be ticketed are clamped, the wire for forming the staples is fed forward simultaneously With the paper, card-board, or other material on which the printing is to be done, the staples are formed, driven and clenched, the tickets are printed and cut off and the goods or materials are released.

The improvements contemplated by the Ypresent invention reside in providing a very simple machine for accomplishing the results named with certainty and ac-l curacy and with a high degree of speed.v

One of the novel features of the present invention is that whereby the feeding of the wire for forming the staples and the carrying of the several staples to the point where they are to be driven and clenched are accomplished by rotary mechanism as is also thc feeding of the printing ribbon. In. combination with the staple feeding and carrying devices 1 employa set of drivers which move with the staple carrier and at proper intervals are brought into alinement with the staple which-is about to be driven and are at the same time in a position to be actuated by a staple forming device at their opposite ends, so that the act of forming a staple and the act of driving a staple already formed are accomplished simultaneously and in part by the same setrof devices.

Other distinguishing features 0f my invention will appear in the present specification and be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying ldrawings,v in which i t Figure] is a side elevation of my pin ticket machine; Fig. 2 is a plan thereof; Figs. 3 and-fare end views taken respectively, from points of view at the right and the left with relation to Fig. l; and Figs. 5, 6, 7,

s, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 17,18 and 19 are detail `views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the main driving shaft of the machine, the samebeing actuated by any suitable means. For purposes of illustration I have shown the shaft 1 as boing operated through intermedi-v ate mechanism by arack or trcadle bar, 2, operated by a tr'eadle (not shown). The intermediate mechanism referred to may consist of a clutch block, 4, (see Figs. l1 and l2) having pawls, 5, 5, pivoted in sockets, 6, G, in saidclutch block. Surrounding the clutch block a pinion, 7, (Fig. 17) provided with pawl sockets, 8, 8, for engaging the ends of the pawls 5, 5 when the pinion is moved in the direction of the arrow marked thereon. Springs may be provided for throwing the pawls 5, 5 outward to insure engagement with the Walls of the sockets, 8, 8, when the pinion is rotated in the direction indicated. i A

The treadle rack 2 engages with the pinion 7 when the treadle is depressed and the treadlc rack thereby lifted. During this motion of the treadle rack the pawls 5, 5 engage with the walls of the sockets. 8; and 'the driving shaft is moved in a clock-wise direction as l looked at from the point ofview taken in Fig. 3. During the descent or reverse movement of the trcadle rack the pawlsfall 0r are pressed into th'e sockets, 6 and under lthose circumstances the pinion 7 does'not engage with the clutch block andthe shaft 1 colise- `qn'ently unaffected.

the shaft itself and is connected to the co-operating d isk`9 by a wrist pin, l1, to which the connecting rod, 12, is pivoted. Tlie lower end of the said connecting rod is pivotally joined toa segment, 13, which is loosely mounted on a shaft, 14. The segment 13 is in the present instance provided with three arms` or extensions, l5, 16 and 17, to thelirst of which the connecting rod 12 is pivotally joined as described aboveand to the second of which'the link,'18, is similarly pivoted. l The opposite end of the link 18 is joined to a wire grip, 19, the same being pivoted *to a lug, 20, on a wire grip carriage, 21. The wire itself is fed from a reel, 22, by the forward movement of the wire grip carriage, that is to say, a movement toward the right in Fig. 4. Such a movement of the carriage is causedlwhenever the link 18 is drawn to the right during the rocking movement. of .the segment 13 under the action of the connecting rod 12. During the reverse movement of the link, however, the wire grip 19 is so actuated as to release its hold upon the wire so that the carriage moves backward without exercising any pull upon the wire in that direction. To prevent any accidental slipping back of the wire under these circumstances, 1 provide a second wire grip, 23, which is'brought into operation only during the reverse movement of the grip carriage.

The third arm or extension 17 on the segment 13 is provided with a spring pressed ratchet tooth, 24, (Fig. 19) which is adapted to engage at intervals with one or the other of four notches, 25, 25, 25, 25, in the back of a rotating or rocking staple carrier, 100, 101, the latter being -rigidly -secured to the shaft 14. By the engagement of the said ratchet tooth with the notches in the back of the carrier 100 the said carrier is rotated onequarter of a revolutionduring each complete excursion of the connecting rod, 12, as will bereadily understood.

On the outer disk crank 9 is carried a roller, 26, ec-

I centrically mounted with relation to the shaft 1. This roller enters a curved slot, 27, in a cam bar, 28, which is extended in a downward direction so as' to present above the wire 30 a staple forming end, 29. This staple forming end is located not only above the wire, 30, but also above one of a series of four pockets, 31,

.32, 33, 34, in the rotating staple carrier 100, 101. The

described pockets are formed in the staple carrier in pairs at diametrically opposite sides thereof and between the members of each pair extends a staple driver. One of these is indicated at 35 and the other, arranged in the carrier at right angles to the first named driver, is shown at 36. By referring to Figs. 4 and 10 it will be seen that the two drivers are provided with bends or notches so that they can lie at right angles to each other in the carrier and still be capable of longitudinal movement without interfering `one with the other. Accordingly, either of the staple drivers may conveniently be operated longitudinally to drive a staple as will presently be explained. The staple carrier itselfis made up of two parts one of which, 100, is rigidly secured to or formed on the shaft 14 (Fig. 9) and the other of which, l101, serves as a removable cover, and, after the staple drivers have been inserted in place, may be secured to the part 100 by screw bolts passing through openings 102, 102, in the parts 100 and 101.

= By referring vto the plan, Fig. 2, and to the end elevation, .Fig 4, Iit will be seen that the' end frame of the machine supports a shaft 110, parallel to the main shaft 1, To :this shaft are secured'by set screws, 111,

' 111, rocking levers, 112 and 113, while another rocking lever 114 is loosely mounted on the said shaft 1140. On the outer side of the rocking lever 112 ismounted a roller 115` and on the outersid'e of `the rockinglever 114, is mounted a similar roller 116; These rollers stand, respectively, in line with the disks 10 and 9 at the end of the shaft 1. The disk 10 is provided with a cam pin or enlargement, 117, which periodically makes contact-,with the roller 115; that is to say, once during 'each rotation of the shaft 1. By this means the said lever downward. This action is so timed as to cut the wire 30 for forming a staple just previous to the descent of the forming end of the cambar, the cutting edge of the part 39 o o-operating for this purpose with a shearing die, 40, to cut off a suitable length of wire.

The function of the rocking lever 1.14 is that of cutting off the end of the ticket strip for forming a ticket. This action will be described in its proper place later on The lower part of the cutter-bar 39 is made adjustable on the upper part thereof by means of a screw and slot shown at 98 and 99, respectively, to compensate for any wear that may take place at the cutter edge in the work of successively cutting off wire to form staples.

Assuming that the normal position of the apparatus is that in which the cam bar is at the upper limit of its: excursion, the action which takes place through the medium of the forming end of the cam bar may now be described, it being first understood that a leaf-spring. 37, is attached to the lower end of the forming portion of the cam bar so arranged as to project slightly beyond the said end.

During the descending motion the cam bar first cairies the spring 37 into contact. with the Wire 30 thus holding the free end of the wire from being disturbed 'or thrown out of place by the cutting. operation which ensues immediately thereafter. A still further descent of the cam bar forces its lower` end more firmly against the wire, causing the spring 37 to collapse or be forced up against the bottom of the cam bar after or duringr which operation the wire is forced into 011e of the notches, say 31, and is shaped into the form of a staple. Meanwhile, the segment 1.3 is being rocked and at this moment is nearly ready for the ratchet tooth 24 to enter one of the notches 25 at the back of the 'carrier 100, 101. When the cam bar has been carried nearly or quite to its extreme upper limit of motion the feeding forward of the staple carrier takes place, at which time the end of the wire staple is free to pass under the lower end of the cam bar and the spring thereon without being inter- -tfered with. After the tooth has engaged with the uotcli a repetition of the movements described above will cause the staple carrierto be fed forward a quarter of a revolution, the tooth afterwards being carried backward to engage' with the next notch in the series. At the same time that the described operations are being carried out, the link 18 is going through the operations of being carried to its extreme left and right positions. The beginning ofthe movement to the left takes place immediately after the cutting of the wire as described, the timing of the apparatus being adapted for that purpose. It has already been explained that during this movement the grip 19 is released from engagement with the wire 30 and the carriage has moved back without disturbing the wire. During the latter half of the excursion of the cam bar the grip carriage -is moved to the right and at such times the grip 19 takes upon the wire 30 and draws it along the proper distance for forming another staple after which the samecycle of operations is repeated.

The goods or materials to which the tickets are to be vattached are shown at 4l, and the ticket strip at 42.

above and the clamp 43 below and also how the pressure of the said clamp can be so regulated or adjusted as to permit the insertion of materialsof any desired vthickness, .and how the staple, once driven through the ticket and the goods, is clenched. It is desired at present, however, to explain the operation of driving a staple. lt will already be clear that the istaples are carried around by the carrier 100, 101, one-quarter of a revolution by each complete rotation of the shaft l. Consequently as soon as the carrier is loaded or charged with the first few staples formed as set forth above there will always be a staple at the lower end of the driver which happens t be in a vertical position, said staple being ready for being driven through the ticket and the goods.

is formed, the driveris forced downward far enough'to Y vcarry the staple through the goods and the ticket, as

clearly'illus'trated in Fig. 4.

The mechanism for operating the clamp 43 and its associated parts consists in the first instance of a set of cams, 44, 45, on the shaft 1 acting upon the clenching rod, 46, provided with rollers 47 and 48 operatingon the'opposite sides of the rod. Through the action of the cams upon these rollers the rod 46, after the shaft 1 begins its excursion, 'and 'after the material to be marked or ticketed has been put in place, is depressed slightly so as to lower one end of a connecting lever 49, pivoted at 5t),r and raise theA opposite end of the said lever. At its remote end the lever 49 is formed into a yoke as shown at 51, and between the vyoke arms a cross-pin, 52, is inserted, the same. passingr through wings or yokes 60 on the lower end of a clenching ram,4

53,- surrounded by the cylindrical clamp 43. Between the lower end of the cylinder 43 and the upper end of the wings or yoke piece 60 is a spring, 54as shown. A spring 55 is also provided near the lower end of the rod 46, the spring being readily adjustable by means of a nut 56 as shown` By reason of the presence of the two springs 54 and 55, the machine adapts itself to attach tickets to materials of any desired thickness, the proper adjustment being made at the spring 55 and the proper compression being adopted for the spring 54. I

The upper end'of the cylindrical clamp, 43, is slitted- Ihe ram 53 is normally placed below the wings 58 and 59, so that when the ram is forced'upward it spreads the wings until they reach practically a horizo'ntal position. l

Tfnl described initial action ofA the cams 44 and 45 is continued during a considerable portion of therotation of the shaft 1 and. until after a staple has been driven through the ticket and' the goods in the manner already ei'rplained. At this point in the revolution of the main shaft, the cam action upon the rollers 47 and 48 is such as to cause'a marked and sudden depression of the rod 46, thereby causing the ram 53 to be forced home to spread the wings 58 and 59 and clench the lower staple. )Vith a clenching device of this character, there is practically no tendency to turn the points of the staple back into the goods in an injurious way and thus a very common difficulty in connection with the ticketing of fabrics is avoided When the driving shaft is moved toward the completion of its rotation the cam action upon the when the ramining, staple-forming action at the upper end ofthe driver is carried out and the staple` ,Fig 1l in its lowermost position.

rollers 47 and'48 is such as to lift the clenching rod 46 and release the clamp, thereby permitting the withdrawalof the goods with the ticket attached.

1n order to accomplish the printing, it is found convenient to attach a printing crank arm, 6l, to a reduced eccentric portion, 62, of the shaft 1 as shown. The crank motion thus provided causes an alternate raising and lowering of the printing chase, 65, which is suitably mounted in chase guides, 64, above the printing bed, 65.` and between the ticket strip and the type 16() isl an inked printing ribbon, 66. I prefer to time the movement of the printing crank so that the printing shall take place just after a 'ticket has been cut off at the end of the printing strip and the staple. has been clenched.'

The ticket strip is notched Vat its edges as show-n in Fig. 18, the notches being made at the four corners of that portion of the strip which is to form-a ticket. On opposite faces of the strip I place a pair of feed rollers, the upper one of which is Shown at 67, andthe lower oneof which is mounted on a shaft 121, the roller 67 being made adjustable and subject to yielding pressure through a pressure bar, 69, and a spring, 70. The feed roller 67 is notched at points 90 apart on itsperiphery, the notches corresponding in position to teeth, 7l, 7l, on the under roller. On the saine shaft '121 is mounted a'notched disk, 122, having four notches arranged in quadrature. The said disk is rigidly mounted on the shaft 121 and when it is moved itoperates the said shaft in a manner well understood. The disk is itself operated by mechanism which will now be described. A feed roller cran 76, is operated from an eccentric 77, on the shaft l in a manner similar to that in which the printing crank is operated. This crank is pivoted, as shown in Fig. 3. to a cross lever, 123, the latter being itself pivoted to the frame at 124. vOne end of the cross lever 123 is connected bya link, 125, withan extension, 126, on a segment, 127, loosely mounted on the shaft 121. Another extension 1.28 on the same segment carries a dog or pawl, 129, which engages successively with the notches in thc disk 122. The link 125 is shown in A rotation of the shaft so as to raise the link 1.25 toits uppermost position Will resul-t in a forward feeding of the disk 122 through a quarter of a revolution. Accordingly, the shaft 121 will be 'similarly moved and through the same'angular distance. whereby the strip 42 Will itself be fed forward the distance of one ticket. A further complete revolution will carry the link l25jback again during which move-l ment the dog 129Vwill'slip over the surface `of the disk 122 and W'illengage with the next notch on the said disk after which the link will be carried upward once more andwill cause another feeding of the ticket strip.

Referring again lto Fig. 3 it will be seen that the outer `end of the cross lever 123 carries a pawl, 130,'which engages with a ratchet wheel, 131, mounted .on the shaft 1.40 which carries av spool 142 on which the printing ribbon, 1.32, is `wound from a reel, 133, on the opposite side of the machine. Thus the reverse movements of the feed roller crank 76 already described will not only perform the operation of feeding the ticket strip but also causes a feeding ofthe printing ribbon so as to pre' sent a new surface to thetype after each printing operation.

The ticket strip 42 travels over. th'e printing bed This'will' cause a rotation of the feed rollers I prefer that the ticket strip should pass over an l idle reel, 81, on its way to the feed mechanism, the delivering reel being placed at any convenient point. On its way into the machine the ticket strip enters through an opening, 134, at the right hand end of the machine (see Fig. 3).

Referring now to the mechanism by'which the ticket strip is cut off to form tickets,- this part oi' the mechanism is shown inAFig. 1 as a knife or cutter, 92, co-operating with a shearing plate 93. The ticket strip is fed over the shearing plate 93 and underneath the point of the knife or cutter 92. The operating mechanism for the knife or cutter consists oi' a connecting rod, 137, pivoted to the knife at the free end oi' the latter and extending upward into connection with the rocking lever 114, from which it receives its motion. The opposite end of the knife is connected with a stationary pivot 136. 'Every time the connecting rod l37 is moved downward (an action which is caused by a slight enlargement or eccentric on the disk 9, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4) it depresses the free end oi the knife 92 and thereby cuts off a'ticket.

It is obvious that the upper end oi each staple driver constitutes the bottom of the upper pocket at the time when the lower end of the cam bar constituting a plunger is forming a new staple; and at the saine time the lower en'd ofthe saine staple driver when driven home for the purpose of clenching the lower staple forms a resistance by Ineans of which the upper staplecan be fully developed.

In a certain application tiled March 8, 1905, Serial Number 248,484, of which this application is a division, claims are made upon certain details oi' the staple forming and setting mechanism.

I claim as my invention:

l. In a ticketing machine, a rotary staple carrier provided lwith two or more pockets for staples, a plunger cooperating with the 'said pockets, a ticket strip feeding device, means for printing separate tickets, means for cutting the wire for the staples, and separate means for cutfing the individual tickets.

2. in a ticketing machine, a rotary staple carrier. provided with two or more pockets forstaplcs, a piunger cooperating with the said pockets, a ticket strip feeding device, means tor printing separater tickets, means for cutting the Wire for the staples, and means for cutting oit the separate tickets.

3. In a ticketing machine, a rotary staple carrier, provided With two or more pockets for staples, a plunger cooperating with the said pockets, a ticket strip feeding device, means for printing separate tickets, means for cutting the wire for the staples, means for cutting off the separate tickets. and means for driving'the staples.

4. In a 'ticketing machine, a ticket strip, means for feeding the same, means for printing the said strip at points equal distances apart, means for cutting the strip in equal lengths, a rotary staple -carrier timed to co-op erate with the said strip, and means for driving a staple through each ticket and through the goods to be ticketed.

5. In a ticketing machine, a rotary staple carrier, a reciprocating wire ieed,,a ticket feeding device, and a ticket cutting device. all in `ombinati0n with'a segment having a plurality of arms or extensions, one being operatively connected with the staple carrier and adapted to rotate the same intermittently, another being connected with the reciprocating wire feed, and another being connected with the ticket cutting device.

6. In a ticketing machine, a rotary staple carrier, a reciprocating wire feed, a ticket feeding device, and a ticket. cutting device, all in(y combination with a common driving shaft and a segment;` operated thereby, said segment having a plurality of arms, one of which is operatively connected with the-staple carrier and adapted to rotate the samel intermittently, another beingr connected with the reshaft and intermediate mechanism whereby the said shaft' acts to operate all the elements named during a single rotation of the shaft. l j

8. In a ticketing machine, a wire feed, a-rotary staple carrier, a ticket strip and feeding mechanismtherefor, a cutting device for the said strip, printing mechanism for printing separatetickets, la printing ribbon, means for feeding the same, a staple driver mounted in the carrier, and a staple forming plunger co-operating with said staple carrier, all in combination with va driving shaft and intermediate mechanism whereby the said -shal't acts to operate all the elements named during a single rotation` of the shaft.

Signed vat New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 31st day of May, A. D. 1905.

FREDERICK GEORGE MYERS.

Witnesses WM. l-I. CAPnn, Gnome H. SdCKBRmGE. 

